I don’t often work on quantitative projects, but since publishing Gender Bias in Wikipedia and Brittanica with Lauren Rhue I’ve come to appreciate just how difficult it can be to communicate findings unambiguously. Of course, had we found that Wikipedia had no biographies of women that would be …

This fall I had the opportunity to re-teach a section of Media, Culture, & Society (MCS) and prepared a new course for Principles of Organizational Communication (OrgCom). I’d prefer to be teaching classes related to my domain (new media and digital communication), but until that happens – fingers crossed for Fall …

Students often write horribly convoluted and passive sentences. A cause of this phenomenon is likely related to another befuddling phenomenon: questions about “I statements.” For example, “in my reflection I will use the APA style but I know it forbids ‘I statements.’” What? Citation please. Given that passive prose, third …

The British Ruby Conference was canceled [andrewnez2012brc] after the composition of the speakers list, 100% white men, was noted and discussed on twitter [Susser2012nsl]. The ensuing discussion touched upon:

the merits of meritocracy (e.g., the call was open, the best were invited)

There are hundreds of CSL bibliography styles (including a github repository) but its not easy to browse or search them – the Zotero Style Repository uses annoying javascript popups. Fortunately, pandoc can easily create such a catalog.

I made good use of pyblosxom for many years but its time to move on. Pyblosxom development is no longer very active. Also, its reliance upon file mtimes for entry dates led to old entries popping back up and I had to whack them back down with touch -d. (Pyblosxom …

I’m pleased to announce that there’s one more way to enjoy Good Faith Collaboration. If you still like the feel of paper but $25 is too much you can now have a copy of the paperback for under $15. Happy page turning!